Walking through the alleyways of Zanzibar’s Stone Town where you share the road with motorcycles, bikes and people pulling carts. (Oct. 14, 2024)
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Walking through the alleyways of stone Town with its many shops. (Oct. 14, 2024)
The people of Stone are 95% Muslim and quite conservative in their dress even for the young girls. (Oct. 14, 2024)
Views of Stone Town. (Oct. 14, 2024)
Walking through the alleyways of Zanzibar’s Stone Town where you share the road with motorcycles, bikes and people pulling carts. (Oct. 14, 2024)
Entering the Darajani Market, one of the central markets in Stone Town. There isn’t anything you can’t buy here from fish to fashion and all things in between. (Oct. 14, 2024)
The Darajani Market, one of the central markets in Stone Town. (Oct. 14, 2024)
The Darajani Market, one of the central markets in Stone Town. (Oct. 14, 2024)
The Darajani Market, one of the central markets in Stone Town. (Oct. 14, 2024)
The Darajani Market, one of the central markets in Stone Town. (Oct. 14, 2024)
The Darajani Market, one of the central markets in Stone Town. (Oct. 14, 2024)
For centuries Zanzibar was the political and economic power in East Africa. And it was also the region’s most notorious slave market. Enslaved people were captured on the mainland, then were chained and held in bondage to be sold in the city’s slave market, often enduring horrific hardship on their journey.
The East African Slave Trade Exhibit (1800-1909) provides the historical legacy of slavery in Zanzibar as well as a slave memorial and the Christ Church Anglican Cathedral commemorating the work of David Livingston in abolishing the slave trade. Both built on site of the former slave market. (Oct. 14, 2024)
Through the exhibit hall, down the stairs of the East African Slave Trade Exhibit in Stone Town is the entrance to the former Slave Chambers. (Oct. 14, 2024)
Through the exhibit hall of the East African Slave Trade Exhibit in Stone Town is the entrance to the former Slave Chambers. (Oct. 14, 2024)
Through the Slave Chambers of the East African Slave Trade Exhibit in Stone Town, Zanzibar City. This portion of the cells, where enslaved people were kept in cramped, dark conditions where the enslaved were chained together before being sold at the former slave market. This section held the women and children. This was a haunting place that made me feel closed in and sick to my stomach. I can’t imagine the horror these enslaved people went through. (Oct. 14, 2024)
The cement slabbed Slave Chambers through the East African Slave Trade Exhibit in Stone Town, Zanzibar City where up to 75 women and children were held here, often chained. (Oct. 14, 2024)
Through the Slave Chambers of the East African Slave Trade Exhibit in Stone Town, Zanzibar City. This portion of the cells, where enslaved people were kept in cramped, dark conditions where the enslaved were chained together before being sold at the former slave market. This section held the women and children. This was a haunting place that made me feel closed in and sick to my stomach. I can’t imagine the horror these enslaved people went through. (Oct. 14, 2024)
The cement slab Slave Chambers through the East African Slave Trade Exhibit in Stone Town, Zanzibar City where the men would be shackled and piled together in this cell. The enslaved were kept in terrible conditions where many died of suffocation and starvation. Some 50 men were chained here often packed and stacked on top of one another after they had been snatched from their homes. (Oct. 14, 2024)